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Altering URLs found in Help&Manual webhelp as part of larger Zoom index

Altering URLs found in Help&Manual webhelp as part of larger Zoom index

08-07-2017, 04:27 PM

I see that there is a way to integrate a Zoom Index as part of a Help&Manual webhelp, but that's not what I want to do. I want to index my whole website, that includes the webhelp in subdirectories (with links into it on some of the main pages).

A lot will depend on which version of H&M you are using and which HTML output template. Also on how your website is structured and where you are opening the search results.

I would suspect that if you opened the search result in a new window you would find that the page would correctly reframe itself with its table of contents, etc. Currently you are possible loading the search result inside an existing set of frames, which code in the H&M page detects (falsely) as it being already correctly framed and so not needing to reframe itself.

I had this problem a long time ago with H&M v4 and had to alter some of their javascript code to identify when this was occuring and reframe the page even when it was inside a parent site frame.

H&M v7 includes HTML output that work different, each topic page includes code for the table of contents/search/index without having to reload/reframe itself.

As you can probably tell from my answer, I think your options are very much on the H&M side. Having ZoomSearch change the URLs would force it to them distinguish between whether the page being indexed is from H&M output or not which isn't possible (AFAIK) unless you can be absolutely sure that the only pages you want your search to ever index are all H&M HTML output pages.

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Fortunately the excellent Help & Manual support forum has a long memory and let me search on my own posts. Here is the summary of what I had to do with H&M V4 HTML output in order to allow it to reframe itself when an individual page was loaded into an existing set of frames: https://helpman.it-authoring.com/vie...php?f=1&t=6952

Obvious caveat being that was Help & Manual V4 - their default code in other versions may differ.